Post Tagged with: "environmental and plant biology news"

New students this year in Environmental & Plant Biology graduate programs are: Remington Burwell Roseanna Crowell Emily Estep Yang Li Hoang Luu Rael Otuya Aaron Rudolph Mojde Sedaghat Taylor Sparbanie Akshayaa Venkataraghavan All hope to earn their graduate degrees in plant biology from Ohio University. Six are doctoral, and four […]

Ohio University Environmental & Plant Biology doctoral student Rael Otuya attended the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development conference in Nashville, Tenn. This was the second year Otuya was invited to the conference and participated in the Future Leaders Forum on a scholarship honoring her work in international rural […]

The Environmental & Plant Biology Department welcomes Dr. John Schenk as a new assistant professor. Schenk joined the department in August of 2019. Prior to his new appointment, he held an assistant professorship at Georgia Southern University, where he was also the curator of the herbarium. He earned a B.S. […]

The Athens News reports on Ohio University buying local produce in a story headlined “OU opens the door to more local food in dining halls: OU Student Farm and Chesterhill Produce Auction now food sources.” …The university buying food from Chesterhill, Morgan County, (about 30 minutes away from Athens by […]

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Dr. Morgan Vis has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Brazil in Biology. Vis is Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University. In 2018-2019 she was named an Ohio University Presidential […]

NASA announced on Aug. 7 that Dr. Sarah Wyatt received an award for plant biology studies, with another spaceflight to the International Space Station in her lab’s future as the United States prepares for  missions to the Moon and Mars. Wyatt’s was one of 15 grants “for new space biology […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Jack Monsted ’19M recently moved into a new job. He is now the assistant curator at the State State Arboretum of Virginia, part of the University […]